Archive for July, 2008:
News Clips for 7/27/08
Chicago Tribune has this gallery of some of the costumes seen this past weekend at SDCC.
Mattel’s new Collector’s Store launched today. If you were like me and waited for the site to open so you could get your King Greyskull, you would haven noticed there was some technical difficulty, but as of right now, everything but Lightning McQueen is still available.
The Fables Panel featured lots of insight into upcoming storylines, a Cinderella mini-series, a Jack/Fables cross-over, and a potential movie. Meanwhile, the upcoming Cloak and Dagger series (I didn’t catch whether it’s a mini or an ongoing) seems to be the thing everyone is talking about, but it’s the return of Milestone that they SHOULD be talking about.
And finally, fans were able to see one half of Marvel’s upcoming straight to DVD Hulk Vs., and apparently were treated to guest appearances by Lady Deathstrike, Deadpool, Omega Red and Sabretooth. Now that does sound like a fun Hulk/Wolverine battle.
X:Men Origins Wolverine trailer
Slashdot is home to a big discourse over the leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer with footage taken at SDCC. If you want to skip the questionable analysis of comic books going on at Slashdot’s front page, go right to the trailer.
Or you can read the interesting theories (Wolverine made Rob Liefeld popular? Who should have played Wolverine? Is this all a big PR stunt/leak by Marvel to promote the movie in a viral video style?) which are just as fun as the trailer.
Still, the cast/character list for this movie according to IMDB suggests that we’ll be seeing movie versions of Wolverine, Deadpool, Gambit, Sabretooth, Agent Zero/Maverick, the Blob and Beak. That alone would make an interesting wave of Super Hero Squad figures, but would it also open the door to months of “where’s our comic book accurate version of Beak?”)
Customizing Assist
Toycutter is filled with ideas, suggestions and assistance for Toy Customizers. The blog covers everything from Super Hero Squad figures to GI Joe type figures, miniatures, and more. Here’s some of the more interesting ideas and links for fans of Super Hero Squad and 3.75 inch figures.
This Wargaming Terrain can easily by customized a little larger to be used as a display base for your Super Hero Squad figures.
Customized 3.75 Union Jack and Bishop, although an official Union Jack was shown at SDCC
And Tons of How Tos
So go, enjoy the sites and scenes, and maybe even make something cool.
Action-Figure.com has updated their gallery to reflect the new Marvel Universe 3.75 inch (or 3 3/4 or… someone should come up with a standard nomenclature) figures, with some really crisp up-close shots.
One of the interesting things is the number of snap-on weapons, like for instance Iron Fist’s fist appears to disconnect from his hand for “powered down mode”, and Spider-Man’s web appears to disconnect as well for use with other characters, or if you have two webs, you can always have a web-slinging good time!
Cool Toy Review’s Collection of SDCC pictures
It seems like most of the Super Hero Squad stuff died down after the initial revelation of the new figures, (other than being told that the Squad is continuing, did we hear anything new about the cartoon? The rumored comic book series?) but Cool Toy Review has some more photos of the SHS figures. They have several shots of what looks to be the finished mountain/tree/rocky area showcase that other sites have posted shots of (although many of the previous photos were of the unfinished/construction stages where many of the pedestals were empty) and some other general photos.
Go and enjoy all those figures we all want, but just remember that it may take months before you get a chance to put them on your shelves!
Skaar Son of Hulk
PakBuzz.com (the official Greg Pak newsite) has a close-up shot of Skaar, Son of Hulk’s upcoming Super Hero Squad figure and reports that it’s in stores in September.
News Clips 7/27/08
New crisp photos of the 3 3/4 Marvel Universe line (the one Furyfiles.com, which is back up now, is promoting)? right here.
Want to see what the line looks like in action? right here
And just to explain how difficult our job is fighting rumors over here on this site, after months and months of speculation and mis-information we finally receive official word on the Collector’s Pack last week. So we’ve got an official time (Late Fall), and an official place (Toys R Us), but what happens on one of the trading boards when someone asks when the set is coming out? He’s told that it was officially confirmed to come out in August. At Wal-mart. Now, we thought that when that rumor started in April it was so silly nobody would fall for it, but apparently some did. To break it down once and for all:
Rumor: Collector’s Pack 2 will be released in August, at Wal-Mart, and was delayed because characters in wheelchairs don’t sell. Source: A guy that had a total of 5 posts to his name, posting on an out of the way thread on a random trading board about something a friend of his says he was told by someone else.
Truth: CP2 will be released in Late Fall, at Toys R Us. Source: an official Hasbro Q&A hosted by Raving Toy Maniac and thus slightly more believable than some guy who says he heard something from his friend who talked to a guy at a Hasbro booth
And finally, since a fair number of readers are interested in the DC Infinite Heroes, we hope to bring a few new surprises for them later this week.
